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SaniDry Crawl Space and
Basement Dehumidifier System

If you are encapsulating your crawl space, it is important to include a dehumidification system. The only machine that will get you the results you need is one called a SaniDry dehumidifier and it's awesome.

Energy Efficient Crawl Space Dehumdifier in Virginia

Crawl Space Dehumidifier

The clear solution to a wet, moist crawl space is an efficient dehumidifier that is designed specially for a damp crawl space. Why would you use anything else?

After dealing with this problem for nearly 20 years, Basement Systems developed an amazing dehumidifier system to meet strict Energy Star requirements while maximizing the amount of water pulled from the air - the perfect solution for crawl space moisture.

SaniDry Crawl Space Dehumidifier features:

  • SaniDry Crawl Space Air System can pull almost 3 times as much water from the air as its leading competitors 
  • It's energy star rated
  • Circulates air up to 2500 square feet
  • The SaniDry handles particles all the way down to two microns in size

Crawl Space Condensation on Ducts
Condensation on ducts are the result of high humidity in the crawl space.  
Houses naturally draw air in from the lower levels, bringing in air from the outside through your crawl space. This is known as the stack effect, and it can bring up the relative humidity levels throughout a whole house. Up to 40% of the air on the first floor can come from the crawl space below. And that means if mold and rot are thriving in the joists, you are exposed to the mold spores and other nasty air pollutants.

In the humid summer months, every degree that air cools raises its Relative Humidity by 2.2%, so when warm air is pulled into your cool crawl space the additional moisture will condense on your air conditioning ducts, CleanSpace system and even the floor joists. Wood and water are a bad combination, since all it takes is a little moisture on an organic material for rot and mold to take over.

Joist rot caused by moisture
Moisture has caused this wood
under the crawl space to rot.
The wood is so soft a pencil
goes right through!

There are only two ways to remove moisture: 1) You could heat the air to lower the Relative Humidity and pay the money for your air conditioner to fight the heater in your crawl space (while the moisture STILL condenses on your cold ducting) or 2) you can attack the problem directly with a sophisticated and efficient dehumidifier.

Most dehumidifiers, however, are simply not up to the job. The small coil of a regular dehumidifier is inefficient at pulling moisture from the cooler, crawl space air, so it has to run longer and work harder. Additionally, many dehumidifiers are horribly inefficient in their own right and do not deal significantly with filtering the air.

To learn more about the SaniDry dehumidifier, contact JES Basement Systems today for a FREE estimate and copy of "Crawl Space Science," which explains more about the system, relative humidity, and dehumidification in general. We service the Eastern half of Virginia including Richmond, Hampton, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Arlington, Alexandria, Leesburg, Reston, Burke, Manassas, Dale City, Hopewell, Petersburg, Tuckahoe, Mechanicsville, Newport News, Norfolk, Fredericksburg and other surrounding areas in VA.